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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Moammar Gadhafi Ruled Libya With An Iron Fist. | Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - As ruler, Gadhafi sought world stage. | May 16, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Washington Post - The rise and fall of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. | Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Muammar Gaddafi. | Dec 08, 2023 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Jul 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Muammar Qadhafi. | Apr 06, 2023 | ||
| Revised discussion of his policies in the 1970s. | Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Muammar Gaddafi. | Feb 14, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Muammar Al-Qaddafi. | Apr 06, 2018 | ||
| Deleted photograph. | Jan 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - An Erratic Leader, Brutal and Defiant to the End. | Sep 26, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 15, 2013 | ||
| Removed phrase "controversial Arab statesman" from description of Qaddafi. | Nov 17, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - The Muammar Gaddafi story. | Oct 20, 2011 | ||
| Updated to include Qaddafi's death on October 20, 2011. | Oct 20, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - The Muammar Gaddafi story. | Oct 20, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention that Qaddafi was ousted as the de facto leader of Libya in 2011. | Sep 06, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention the rebel takeover of the Bab al-Aziziyyah compound in Tripoli. | Aug 26, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention that rebel forces took control of parts of Tripoli in August 2011. | Aug 22, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention that the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Qaddafi in June 2011. | Jun 27, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention that the ICC requested arrest warrants against Qaddafi, his son Sayf al-Islam, and Abdullah Senussi, Qaddafi's intelligence chief, on May 16. | May 16, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention the death of Qaddafi's son Sayf al-Arab in a NATO air raid on April 30, 2011. | May 09, 2011 | ||
| Updated to mention UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against the Qaddafi regime. | Mar 02, 2011 | ||
| Updated to include anti-Qaddafi uprising in February 2011. | Feb 22, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Muammar al-Qaddafi. | Dec 27, 2010 | ||
| Added two images of Muammar al-Qaddafi. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Photograph of Qaddafi during his speech to the UN General Assembly added. | Feb 03, 2010 | ||
| Updated to mention Qaddafi's first speech before the UN General Assembly in 2009 and his failed attempt to remain as AU chairman beyond the customary one-year term in 2010. | Feb 03, 2010 | ||
| Updated to include the precise date of the coup that deposed Idris. | Aug 12, 2009 | ||
| Qaddafi elected head of the African Union. | Feb 03, 2009 | ||
| Updated to mention lifting of sanctions by US and UN and start of return to global community. | Dec 10, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 12, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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